San Joaquin County Biographies
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PETER ZORNIG.
A rancher and dairyman of the Lodi section of the San Joaquin Valley who
is .making a success of his undertaking by the labor of his hands is Peter
Zornig, who like many successful men began with small capital. He was born in
Hamburg, Germany, May 14, 1882, a son of Michael and Katherine Zornig. The
father, a brickmason, came to the United States when Peter was a child of four
Years and first settled in Clinton, Iowa, but remained there but a short time
when he removed to California and settled at Franklin. He and his wife are the
parents of two children, Peter, and Anna, Mrs. J. W. Wilson, living at Elk
Grove, Cal.
Peter Zornig received a grammar school education in the schools of
Franklin, Cal., and remained under the parental roof until he was twenty-one
years old, when he established a livery stable business in Sacramento which he
conducted for five years, then sold it and removed to Placerville, where he was
engaged in the livery business, but remained there but a short time when he
returned to Sacramento County and took up dairying on the home place with his
father.
On June 18, 1913, Mr. Zornig was married in Lodi to Miss Meta H. Lange,
a daughter of John and Mary (Ahrents) Lange. She was born at Woodbridge, Cal.,
and received her education at the Henderson school. Her parents were both
natives of Germany, who came to California in 1881 and settled at Woodbridge
where they reared a family of seven children: Emma, William, Herman, Meta H.,
Albert, John, and Marie, Mrs. Jacob Kurtz. Her father passed away at the age of
forty-two and the mother at the age of sixty-two years. Mrs. Zornig inherited
twenty-five acres from her father's estate, located on Kettleman Lane one mile
south of Lodi and on this ranch the young married couple took up their abode.
Mr. Zornig planted fifteen acres to alfalfa and has a ten-acre vineyard of
Mission grapes. On this ranch, Mr. Zornig runs a dairy of twenty cows and has
one of the most up-to-date dairy barns in the county, being well equipped with
modern machinery and sanitary in every particular. In politics, Mr. Zornig
supports the best men and measures, that he considers best for all the people
and the county. Mr. and Mrs. Zornig are members of the German Lutheran Church of
Lodi. Mr. Zornig has a strong attachment for the land of his adoption, and is
thoroughly American in thought and spirit.
History of San Joaquin County, California � Los Angeles, Historic Record Co.,
1923
p 1511
Transcribed by Kathy Sedler.